A magazine of 30,000 rounds, you call it Hanyang

Zheng Kaixuan understood Li Yunlong. In fact, Li Yunlong saw that the Fourth Battalion was seriously injured and the soldiers were all injured, so he planned to let the Fourth Battalion rest for some time.

Zheng Kaixuan understands the soldiers better.

Including himself, everyone thought that these injuries on his body were nothing, and the most important thing was to defeat the Japanese!

When it comes to fighting, Zheng Kaixuan is the one who wants to fight the most. He is actually looking forward to seeing how powerful the new artillery can be and looking forward to getting more Japanese epaulettes.

But the most pressing issue now is to expand the team.

There are less than a hundred soldiers left in the Fourth Battalion now, and with such limited resources, they cannot withstand any hardship.

If you want to fight, you must be fully prepared.

After calming the soldiers' emotions, Zheng Kai took action the day after Li Yunlong and others left Wei Zhuang.

Regardless of the fact that his leg injury had not yet healed, Zheng Kaixuan led the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion to start propaganda and recruiting soldiers around Wei Zhuang and Heiyunkou.

With his decent eloquence, he promoted the idea of ​​joining the army to defend the country, and quite a few people signed up.

In just one week, Zheng Kaixuan recruited more than a hundred people.

A week later, the weather became colder and colder, and heavy snow finally began to fall.

It was a rare heavy snowfall, with enough snow on the road to cover my calves.

Due to the heavy snow, Zheng Kaixuan stopped going out and began to lead the soldiers to train day after day.

The previous publicity work had a very good effect. During this period of heavy snow, young people from nearby came to join the army every day despite the severe cold and snow.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed, and the total number of the Fourth Battalion had expanded to more than 400 people.

A regular main force regiment consists of about 1,500 people.

Under normal circumstances, a battalion has 500 soldiers.

The size of the Fourth Battalion is now very close to that of a regular battalion.

By this time it was already early February 1938.

The land of Shanxi is still covered in ice and snow, a blanket of silver.

Since Li Yunlong left the base, he has never returned and no news has been received.

In the Eighth Route Army, only regimental-level units were equipped with radio stations, and not every regiment had one.

The several soldiers sent by Zheng Kaixuan to look for Li Yunlong never returned.

So he simply stopped waiting.

The gunshot wound on the thigh has completely healed, and the wounds of the soldiers in the Fourth Battalion have also all healed.

A lot of food and supplies were seized before, and the Fourth Battalion has been training intensively, so the nutrition has been sufficient during this period, and the soldiers are in good physical condition.

Every day, there were more and more voices in the team shouting that they wanted to fight the Japanese.

Zheng Kaixuan knew that since the team had initially formed combat effectiveness, it was time to fight the Japanese!

During this period, he was not only busy training troops, but also secretly sent out many spies to investigate and search for information about the Japanese garrisons nearby.

There are really no Japanese troops nearby.

The area around Heiyunkou is sparsely populated and the land is barren.

When the Japanese invaded, most of the villagers had already fled. It would not be an exaggeration to say that nine out of ten houses were empty.

There is nothing to gain in the remote mountain villages and the wilderness, and ordinary Japanese troops are unwilling to station in such places.

The Japanese regular troops usually choose to be stationed in cities with dense populations or larger towns.

Zheng Kaixuan hadn't seen the puppet army for a long time since the Heiyunkou puppet army camp was destroyed.

However, after the soldiers' persistent search, their efforts paid off and they finally found a Japanese army unit.

About ten kilometers west of Wei Zhuang, across two large mountains to the west of Wei Zhuang, there is a town called Dazhai.

In this town, there is an entire Japanese infantry battalion stationed.

In fact, this Japanese army was just passing by here, but the weather was too cold and the wind and snow were too strong, so they had to stay in Dazhai temporarily to rest.

This rest lasted for a full half month. It seemed that he had no plans to leave Dazhai in the near future.

Zheng Kaixuan immediately made the decision to attack Dazhai! This time, he wanted to devour the entire Japanese infantry battalion alive!

After finding out the situation, Zheng Kaixuan decided to lead his troops to battle immediately!

"Fourth Battalion, everyone assemble!"

At four or five o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Zheng Kaixuan sent people to sound the assembly call.

"Brothers! We recently received news that a Japanese army is stationed in Dazhai Town to the west. Our mission today is to wipe them out!"

"Except for the 4th and 10th companies who will stay to guard the village, everyone else, follow me into battle!"

"set off!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers responded in unison, their voices loud and their morale high.

If you want to go to Dazhai, you have to take other routes and you will have to go dozens of miles further, and you may not arrive even after dark.

The only shortcut is to cross the two big mountains to the west.

Although the mountain road is a little difficult to walk on, if you walk faster, you should be able to arrive before noon.

This is also the reason why Zheng Kaixuan gathered the soldiers so early.

This time, the entire ninth company of the transport company was mobilized, bringing with them thirty war horses.

The mountain roads were rugged and narrow, making it impossible for horse-drawn carriages to pass through. In many places, even horses had difficulty passing through. Ammunition and supplies could only be transported by horses.

Except for some large items that were disassembled and carried on horseback, the rest of the small weapons and ammunition were basically carried by the soldiers themselves.

Guided by the dim light of more than a dozen flashlights, the team began to move forward arduously along the mountain road.

As a man who had fought off many ambushes by the Japanese, Zheng Kaixuan was very careful when marching.

He sent a company commander, Chen Shengli, who traveled light and led a company of soldiers to explore the way far ahead to avoid any unexpected situations that could occur at any time.

In fact, he was overthinking it. At this time and in this weather, it was impossible for the Japanese to come out and ambush him.

But it's never wrong to be careful.

At 7:30 in the morning, it was already bright.

After three or four hours of trekking, the Fourth Battalion successfully crossed the first mountain and arrived at a valley between two mountains.

The terrain in the valley is relatively flat, making it a rare and good place to rest.

Zheng Kaixuan ordered the soldiers to stop and rest, boil water and cook in the valley, and have a full meal first.

After all, once we cross the mountain ahead, we will enter the territory of Dazhai Town, and there will be no chance to cook then.

"Commander! Someone's looking for you."

At this moment, Chen Shengli came back quickly from the front with a few soldiers and came in front of Zheng Kaixuan.

"Who's looking for me?"

Zheng Kaixuan was surprised. He could never have imagined that someone would look for him in this deep forest while he was on the march.

When he looked up and saw the person behind Chen Shengli, he was almost scared.

It turned out to be him!